I have had enormous privilege in my life. I am grateful that the world is changing and I am trying to listen, learn, up-post, donate, support. Posting this list of what I have collected so far in case it is useful to others.
What was beautiful:
What I’m reading and listening to:
BOOKS –
Books to read to learn about racism
Black-owned Independent bookstores
ARTICLES & RESOURCES–
How to be an Ally to the Black Lives Matter Movement
75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
Scaffolded anti-racism resources
Talking Points for Conversations About Race in America
An interactive history of slavery in America, as part of the 1619 project
Institutionalized Racism: A syllabus
Tear gas is very dangerous – especially in a pandemic
The Role of White Co-conspirators in Dismantling Systemic Racism
Black People in Canada are not Settlers
Remembering Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Killed by Canadian Police
National Resource and Education Tool
PLACES TO DONATE & SUPPORT –
Where to donate your time and money
Black Lives Matter
National Bail Fund
Campaign Zero
Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund
Black Lives Matter Vancouver Go Fund Me
Black Owned Businesses in Vancouver
A few more Vancouver Black Owned Businesses
PODCASTS –
1619 – a history of slavery in America
99% Invisible:
The Blazer Experiment
Articles of Interest #8: Knockoffs
The Green Book Redux
Adult ISH :
Black ISH
Working Through My ISH
Roots ISH
The Allusionist:
Yes, As In
In Crypt, Decrypt
Ear Hustling
Criminal:
It Looked Like Fire
695BGK
Just Mercy
Ear Hustle:
Us & Them
Tell Christy I Love Her
Future on Ice
Everything is Alive:
Chioke, Grain of Sand
Ayo, Balloon
The Heart:
Race Traitor Series
Divesting from People Pleasing Series
Kitchen Sisters Present:
First Day of School, 1960 New Orleans
Black Chef, White House: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere
The Memory Palace:
Antidisestablishmentarianism
We’ve Forgotten James Powell
Junk Room
Mortified:
Sakena – Mr. Telephone Man
Cynthia – I Need a (Straight) Man
Country Mouse vs City Mouse
Over the Road:
Why We Drive
Radio Diaries:
Remembering Olivia Hooker
The Words of Renault Robinson – Then and Now
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
Song Exploder:
Meek Mill – Trauma
Jamila Woods – Baldwin
Michael Kiwanuka – Black Man in a White World
This Day in Esoteric Political History:
Shirley Shows Up (1972)
Ain’t I A Woman (1851)
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
This is Love:
Prairie Warbler
Always Tomorrow
Theory of Everything:
Going Karura
Utopia (part v)
Instaserfs
The Truth:
The Off Season
The Sweet Music of Friction
Visible
FILMS –
National Film Board of Canada Black Communities